Batman Begins (2027)

“I’m not going to kill you,” the Batman said. “You’re going to tell them. Every criminal in Gotham. The shadows used to belong to you. Now they belong to me .”

He woke three weeks later in a cargo hold, a crude bat-shaped blade buried in his shoulder—a parting gift. The League would not forgive. But Gotham was waiting, her bones picked clean by Falcone’s crows and the rot of broken banks. Batman Begins

“Compassion is a wound you cannot afford,” Ducard said, firelight dancing in his dead eyes. “I’m not going to kill you,” the Batman said